I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If we work for social change - and it is good to do such things - let us always do it with an awakened heart big enough for all. There is no enemy; there is only ignorance. There is no one to hate, only many to love.”
“If we work so actively to avoid painful situations, preoccupation will cause us to miss the good things that are happening in our lives.”
“If we work together they are no match for us.”
Source: Queen of the Crows
“If we worried about all the idiots in the world,” he said, “we’d never get anything done.”
-- Brian”
Source: Except for Cough Drops
“If we worried half as much what others are doing for us and spent twice as much time helping others, we would all be exponentially happier.”
“If we would accept heaven's life, we need by all means to live in the world and to participate in its duties and affairs. In this way, we accept a spiritual life by means of our moral and civic life; and there is no other way a spiritual life can be formed within us, no other way our spirits can be prepared for heaven. This is because living an inner life and not an outer life at the same time is like living in a house that has no foundation, that gradually either settles or develops gaping cracks or totters until it collapses.”
Source: Heaven and hell
“If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible.”
“If we would be angry and not sin, we must be angry at nothing but sin; and we should be more jealous for the glory of God than for any interest or reputation of our own.”
Source: Ephesians - Complete Bible Commentary Verse by Verse
“If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“If we would be sanctified, our course is clear and plain—we must begin with Christ. We must go to him as sinners, with no plea but that of utter need, and cast our souls on him by faith, for peace and reconciliation with God.... If we would grow in holiness and become more sanctified, we must continually go on as we began, and be ever making fresh applications to Christ.”
“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.”
“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.”
Source: The Life of Charlotte Brontë
“If we would change the world, we must first change people's thoughts.”
“If we would dare to accomplish half of what we are capable of we would live a life twice as fulfilling.”
“If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.”
“If we would end the war on drugs, you would see the end of the militarization of our police forces and you would see an end to a lot of the shooting violence that's going on when people are being pulled over for traffic stops and then suddenly executed right in the street.”
“If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find Him, and then proceed in the way of simplicity. Now as always God discovers Himself to "babes" and hides Himself in thick darkness from the wise and the prudent. We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without doubt God will quickly respond.”
“If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.”
Source: Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It
“If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.”
“If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.”
Source: Purpose in Prayer
“If we would have good ministers, we must remember our Lord’s example, and pray for them. Their work is heavy. Their responsibility is enormous. Their strength is small. Let us see that we support them, and hold up their hands by our prayers.”
Source: Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke
“If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure.”
“If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.”
“If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play.”
Source: The Big Stick, 1905-1909
“if we would have the untroubled mind, we must transfer our conscientious efforts from the small details of life—from the worry and fret of common things—into another and a higher atmosphere. We must transfigure common life, dignify it and ennoble it; then, although the old causes of worry may continue, we shall have gained a stature that will make us unconscious masters of the little troubles and in a great degree equal to the larger requirements. Life will be easier, not because we make less effort, but because we are working from another and a better level.”
“If we would, hypothetically, explore the idea of the universe's contraction, the result would be similar to the black hole. Regardless of a much bigger mass of the whole Universe, as ours is, the absolute contraction would lead to the same point at which the black hole reaches maximum density. The point of maximum density is Zero, at which point the Big Bang happens (or the Universe disappears, which is less likely). In this sense, from the point of the result, expansion or contraction of the Universe would lead to almost the same result.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.”
“If we would just slow down, happiness would catch up to us.”
Source: An Hour to Live, an Hour to Love: The True Story of the Best Gift Ever Given
“If we would know true love and understanding one for another, we must realize that communication is more than a sharing of words. It is the wise sharing of emotions, feelings, and concerns. It is the sharing of oneself totally.”
“If we would know what heaven is before we come thither, let us retire into the depths of our own spirits, and we shall find it there among holy thoughts and feelings.”
Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of
“If we would know whether our faith is genuine, we do well to ask ourselves how we are living.”
Source: Bible commentary - The gospel of John
“If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.”
Source: What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings
“If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.”
Source: The Shame of the Cities
“If we would like a long and productive life, we must take special care of the vehicle God gave us to move around in while we are here. Abuse, neglect, and lack of maintenance will come back to repay us with pain, lethargy, dysfunction, and, of course, a shorter-than-possible lifespan. Further, from a spiritual perspective, it is difficult for us to pay attention to our consciousness-evolution if we are plagued with physical discomfort. When the body is comfortable and silent, we can more easily put our attention on higher pursuits.”
Source: Touched by Love
“If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory.”
“If we would make it evident that our conversion is sound, we must loathe and hate sin from the heart.”
“If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.”
“If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.”
“If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out that there are hundreds, thousands, even millions of other people just as we are, who see the truth as we do...and are only waiting, again as we are, for someone to proclaim it. The Kingdom of God is within you.”
“If we would pray aright, the first thing we should do is to see to it that we really get an audience with God, that we really get into His very presence. Before a word of petition is offered, we should have the definite consciousness that we are talking to God, and should believe that He is listening and is going to grant the thing that we ask of Him.”
Source: HOW TO PRAY
“If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all the nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples, and as fast as they learn our language and comprehend the duties of citizenship, we should incorporate them into the American body politic. The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come.”
“If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion.”
“If we would see the beauty in ourselves that all others see constantly, we would be timeless wonder of the world”
“If we would see the color of our future, we must look for it in our present; if we would gaze on the star of our destiny, we must look for it in our hearts.”
“If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.”
Source: Cellular Pathology as based upon physiological and pathological histology. Twenty lectures delivered in ... 1858. Translated from the second edition of the original by F. Chance. With notes and numerous emendations principally from MS. notes of the author, and illustrated by ... engravings on wood.
“If we would simply view remote working as the new norm we would be leaps and bounds ahead.”
“If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.”
“If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners are corrupt, we must consistently hold up to view an austere morality.”
“If we would take but a moment to glance into the mirror of our responses we will clearly see the reflection of our heart.”